The Starry Sky Marines began to panic.
"...My wife is pregnant. If these Shang People really make it to our home, will my child survive?"
"My daughter is only ten years old! If these damned Shang People really run to my house and treat my daughter like... I'll fight them to the death!"
A Team Captain hesitated and said, "We need to make this situation clear to First Lieutenant Chu and see if they need to report it upwards."
"We are too few in number, and our weapons don't have an absolute advantage. We still need to discuss this with the higher-ups."
"If the higher-ups know, they can send an Ion Beam Cannon; one shot would obliterate all forty thousand of these bastards!"
As he spoke, he sent a message to the Airship.
But after waiting for a long time, the Shang People and their accomplices who had launched the sneak attack were almost upon them, and Chu Qingchen and the others still hadn't responded.
The lack of response from their side meant that the previous tactics couldn't be changed.
Even if they didn't want to fight, they had to.
Finally, the leading Team Captain, Fang Ping, said resolutely, "No matter what, we cannot retreat."
"Behind us are our country and our homes!"
They used to slack off during battles because they were only fighting for some unclaimed resource stars and uninhabited barren stars in the Beichen Galaxy.
The enemy hadn't directly attacked the Beichen Empire, so they could retreat if they wanted to.
Anyway, the resource stars and barren stars they seized would ultimately be divided up by the Royal Family and the Nobles, offering no benefit to ordinary people like them.
But now, these Shang People and their accomplices were openly stating that their goal wasn't just to ambush them, the outsiders, but to use their Flying Vehicles to directly attack the planets of the Beichen Empire!
That was something they couldn't tolerate, nor could they retreat from.
Even the five thousand Starry Sky Marines themselves didn't want to retreat anymore.
They all used the Mecha's internal public channel to tell their Team Captains, "Captain! We can't retreat!"
"If they succeed, our families and friends will suffer a tragic fate!"
The thought of their beloved families and friends being kept like livestock by the Shang People was unbearable! Even the two thousand female soldiers clenched their weapons and said excitedly, "Death is death! We've agreed that each of us will take down at least eight enemies before we die!"
If five thousand of them each killed at least eight enemies, that would be exactly forty thousand.
The enemy had only sent forty thousand people to attack.
Even if they were completely annihilated, the enemy wouldn't get off easy! Since everyone was on the same page, the Team Captains redeployed their battle strategy.
"Team One, advance one thousand meters and guard the enemy's rear."
"Teams Two, Three, and Four, infiltrate the enemy's center and cut them into four sections."
"Team Five, launch a frontal assault!"
"The time of attack will be determined by each Team Captain!"
Each Team Captain, meaning the five Team Captains.
Just then, the Shang People and their accomplices, whose scattered formation stretched for nearly half a kilometer, suddenly changed their formation.
They split off five thousand people into five columns.
Each column had about a thousand people, rushing towards the five Interstellar Airships!
The Starry Sky Marines who were lying in ambush saw this scene, and even those who had doubted the enemy's intentions no longer hesitated.
These Shang People and their accomplices really wanted their Airships! With the Airships, they could fly into the sky and take over the Cruiser!
They knew that there was only a pilot team and two navigators on the Starry Sky Cruiser parked in the sky!
The Team Captains no longer hesitated and gave the order: "Attack!"
At the same time, Chu Qingchen, inside his Interstellar Airship, also saw the approaching enemy and received the message from Fang Ping.
He didn't respond because he dismissed Fang Ping's concerns, and instead, he angrily said, "Are these Shang People crazy?!"
"Even if they have some outdated Thermal Weapons, can they defeat us?!"
"Fire!"
The five of them boarded their respective Flying Vehicles and immediately flew out of the Interstellar Airship, colliding head-on with the Shang People and their accomplices who had come to raid them.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Swish! Swish! Swish! Pew! Pew! Pew! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The sounds of various guns firing, the bombardment of electromagnetic cannons, and the bursts of Flame Throwers echoed in the silent night sky.
This time, the raiding force consisted of 20,000 Shang People and 20,000 Haidagong.
When the thousand-strong raiding party approached Chu Qingchen's Interstellar Airship, they were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the five Combat Aircraft.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
The fully automatic intelligent machine gun bullets fired from the Flying Vehicles mercilessly reaped the lives of the Shang People.
However, although some of the Haidagong were also hit, these were only minor injuries to them.
As long as their gills on their cheeks were not hit, their self-healing abilities would allow them to recover quickly from other injuries, and they would be fine for the time being.
Five hundred Shang People quickly died under the strafing fire of the Flying Vehicles, while five hundred Haidagong were all lying on the ground, mostly unscathed.
After that round of strafing fire from the five Flying Vehicles, Chu Qingchen immediately issued a death order to the five Team leaders of the Starry Sky Marine Corps: "They have already attacked! Fight to the death!"
When the Starry Sky Marines saw that the five elite pilots had also joined the battle, they were even more determined to fight to the death with the Shang People and their accomplices.
The five thousand Starry Sky Marines quickly divided into five Teams, and according to the Team leaders' previous assignments, they each headed to their designated locations.
Team One quickly gathered in the Marine Plant Forest where they were hiding, and then ran towards the rear of the Shang People.
Team Two, Team Three, and Team Four also finished gathering, and taking advantage of the darkness, they emerged from the Marine Plant Forest and immediately plunged into the long line of the Shang People and their accomplices like three sharp cones.
They divided the Shang People and their accomplices' formation into four segments.
Team Five had already rushed out of the Marine Plant Forest, facing the vanguard of the Shang People and their accomplices, and fired the first shot! Rat-a-tat-tat!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! They were all wearing standard Mecha, and at this moment, Submachine Guns, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, and Electromagnetic Cannons were quickly mounted on the mechanical arms of the Mecha.
At this time, they were not concerned with accuracy, but with saturation strikes!
They wanted to catch the enemy off guard! Their strategy was correct.
Indeed, this first wave of attack left the vanguard of the Shang People and the Haidagong dazed and confused.
Several thousand Shang People died in an instant.
But the Haidagong suffered few casualties.
This was because they were very fast, and they could also breathe fire at any time.
However, the Marine Corps were all wearing Mecha, and the fire had no effect on them.
So, as soon as they saw Marine Corps rushing over, they immediately hid behind the Shang People.
In addition, their helmets had a certain bulletproof effect against conventional Thermal Weapons.
And for them, as long as they were not hit in their fatal weak points, other injuries could be ignored.
So, after the first few thousand Shang People died, the Haidagong began to launch a counterattack.
They also had Submachine Guns and Sniper Rifles, and two of the Haidagong even had Electromagnetic Cannons.
Although they were all models that had been eliminated (eliminate) by the Beichen Empire, their firepower was still top-notch.
As soon as they counterattacked, the Mecha of the one thousand Starry Sky Marines in Team Five immediately suffered damage.
Moreover, these standard Mecha could withstand Submachine Gun bullets for a while, but they could not completely defend against Sniper Rifle bullets, let alone the attacks of Electromagnetic Cannons.
In the first round of the Haidagong's counterattack, two hundred Starry Sky Marines from Team Five were immediately killed in action.
More than three hundred more had holes blasted in their Mecha.
Once the Mecha were damaged, their bodies as ordinary people could not resist the ubiquitous nuclear radiation.
Five minutes later, these Starry Sky Marines with damaged Mecha could no longer stand up.
Their bones seemed to have been melted, unable to support the weight of the Mecha at all.
One by one, three-meter-tall Mecha fell to the ground.
They thought that even if they died, they would drag a few more Shang People and their accomplices down with them!
Therefore, the Haidagong howled and rushed up, intending to finish them off and strip the Mecha from their bodies. These Marines used their last strength to detonate the high-energy explosives hidden on their bodies.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!* Clusters of fire lit up, illuminating the pitch-black night.
Some Marine Corps were directly killed, and the Haidagong swarmed over, eating them frantically on the spot.
In fact, these dead people were of no use to the Haidagong at all.
They didn't help their physical characteristics in the slightest, they were just satisfying their cravings.
At this time, they took a few bites on the battlefield and gave up.
They only stripped the Mecha and stopped eating people, because there wasn't that much time.
As for the ordinary Starry Sky Marines, without the protection of the Mecha, they were basically doomed.
The only difference was that if they were allowed to die naturally, it might take half a month to a month, depending on their physical fitness.
But now, the Haidagong didn't dare to approach to finish them off, because they were afraid that the Marine Corps would drag a group of people down with them before they died, so they directly incinerated them with flames.
Soon, all one thousand Starry Sky Marines in Team Five, including two hundred female soldiers, were killed in action.
Many members of Team Two, Team Three, and Team Four received the last message sent to them by the members of Team Five.
They were originally comrades-in-arms, going on missions together, training together, and spending day and night together.
But since they were soldiers, no matter how lazy and slippery they were usually, when it was time to sacrifice, none of them hesitated.
They suppressed the discomfort and grief in their hearts, and launched an attack on the separated Shang People and Haidagong.
They didn't actually know what those strange humanoid creatures following the Shang People were, they only knew that they were in the same group as the Shang People.
Moreover, these humanoid creatures were very difficult to deal with.
These three Teams, a total of three thousand Marine Corps, had to deal with a battle team composed of twenty thousand Shang People and ten thousand Haidagong, almost a one-to-ten fight.
And their weapons did not have an absolute advantage, and the Mecha were only conventional Mecha.
After being attacked by the Shang People and Haidagong, who were also holding conventional Thermal Weapons, the Mecha were quickly damaged.
Even the members of Team One, who were responsible for the rearguard, joined the battle at this time.
But all of them together only had four thousand people left, to deal with forty thousand Shang People and Haidagong.
The other side also had conventional Thermal Weapons, and they were not afraid of nuclear radiation.
In this case, the First Interstellar Fleet's Starry Sky Marines were also being reduced at a terrifying rate.
The battle had only been going on for five minutes, and two thousand of their five thousand Starry Sky Marines had already been sacrificed, and more than one thousand had lost their combat capabilities due to damaged Mecha.
There were less than two thousand Starry Sky Marines left whose Mecha had not been damaged.
Of the previous five Team leaders, there were only two left.
The two Team leaders had solemn expressions, while using sniper rifles to continuously shoot at those humanoid creatures wearing helmets, while discussing tactics.
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